The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or Hawiian Islands and Other Parts of Polynesia

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Page 126 Then they sang a verse of a hymn, followed by a blessing. Supper ensued with
great cheerfulness, concluded with giving of thanks and another verse of an
Hawaiian hymn. Afterwards, out on the grassy play-ground, we had blind-man's-
buff, ...

Page 140 ... the phenomena exhibited. Straight over such a tract, crime itself, under the
energetic management of Hoapili, has built a commodious road from Honolulu to
Kaupo. Like the old man in " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," we almost " blessed ...

Page 204 ... for their respective duties, to teach them, theoretically and practically, the best
method of communicating instruction to others, together with a knowledge of the
arts, usages, and habits of civilized life, with all their train of social blessings.

Page 209 209 ands with their families, and thus insure, through the divine blessing, a
Puritan basis for the community, whatever it shall be, which is to exist on those
Islands." In the event of an American Protectorate, at the request of the Hawaiian
...

Page 231 Love and blessing to you because of your love to us and your great kindness.
Because also of your stirring up the brethren in the United States to that which is
wanting to our new meeting-house in Kohala. We are very happy in having ...

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Page 252 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

Page 234 - Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men...

Page 132 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.

Page 123 - No, faith, not a jot ; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: As thus; Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust ; the dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel...

Page 252 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

Page 159 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

Page 261 - Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent. My Lords, is it a prosecutor you want? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors; and I believe, my Lords, that the sun, in his beneficent progress round the world, does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bounds and barriers of nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community, — all the Commons of England resenting,...

Page 190 - ... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of...